Format cells

[10 minutes total]

These seven tutorials show how to format your Excel cells and worksheets. Use color, text alignment, borders, and other formatting features to make your data easy to read and analyze!

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• Formatting numbers as percentages, dates, etc. (1:35)
• Changing alignment of cells (text alignment, wrapping, diagonal slanting)(1:17)
• Changing fonts (bold, italic, color, font, size) (0:47)
• Adding a border (inside/outside, line style, color) (1:34)
  
• Adjusting a cell's background color and pattern (1:04)
• Locking or unlocking cells (0:25)
• Demonstrating efficient formatting through global selection, formatting buttons, and use of colors and borders (3:08)

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